Location of howto

[iolair]

Can anyone point me to a howto, or other document that explains how to connect Windows Clients to a Linux Server? All I want to do is have the Linux Server run a login script that will map the network drives and printers for the Windows Client. I would rather not use Samba. I'd rather use NFS if possible. I'm replacing a Netware server, and just need file and print sharing along with login script capabilities.

Thank you,
Iolair MacWalter

 

[ericbrunson]

That's not how it would work. The server doesn't map the drives for a windows client, the client maps its drives. You'd have to do something like mount a generic login drive in your autoexed.bat, then run a script from that drive. Suprisingly similar to how Netware did it back in the 3.14 days when I used it.

 

[thedaver]

That's spooky. We've had a couple of references to Netware 3.14 in this forum over the past month.

Should we expect Banyan, token ring, and MS-DOS to make topic resurgencies too? ;-)

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[franklin97355]

Don't laugh. We still have typeI token ring in our schools.

 

[Castor66]

Don't laugh - I left a company about 18 months that had Token Ring throughout the organisation! Another company I worked for last year also had Token Ring throughout most of their offices! And they were in the airline services business with a 1 billion pound turnover!!!! It is scary.

 

[thedaver]

Wow.... laughing perhaps wouldn't be my first reaction....

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[BuckWeet]

Welcome to the world of large corporations that depend on mainframes.. We are a large financial corp and still rely heavily on token ring in the mainframe areas.. We're finally deploying fully IP based apps as well as have Gig adapters in our IBM Z990 CMCs.. Its a slow transition.. And we still have to support token ring for business partner connectivity..


Its much fun!!

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[iolair]

Thanks for all the replies. I wish we could use DOS. Wait a minute, I do for some things, mostly utilities that won't work under Winsux.

I am actually trying to replace a Netware 3.12 server with Linux. I'm doing all I can to avoid using Windows Server products. I can map drives to the 3.12 server in the Netware login script. If it weren't for lack of support from anti-virus and backup vendors, I'd still be happy with Netware 3.12, and would keep on using it.

 

[ericbrunson]

Don't trash token ring too much, it behaves exceptionally well in high congestion situations. I can't always say the same for 802.11.

 

[lgarner]

The method for Windows clients to communicate with a Linux server is SMB, same as for a NetWare server if you're not using Novell's client s/w. You could use NFS, but Windows doesn't come with it. You'd have to add it.

 

[iolair]

Thanks, lgarner. I guess it's time to learn samba.

Iolair MacWalter